setting up (a structure, building, camp, etc.); construction; preparation (e.g. of a venue); arrangement (of an event)
fortifying; fortification
of course; certainly; naturally
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
result; consequence; coming to fruition; bearing fruit; as a result; consequently
severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)
but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding
how; in what way; how about; questionable
investigation (e.g. by police or prosecutors); examination; inquiry; enquiry
simple; easy; uncomplicated; brief; quick; light
the whole day; all the day
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)
end; finish; bounds; limits; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)
Saipan (island near Guam)
honourable defeat; honorable defeat; honourable death; trying but being utterly beaten; being completely rejected when professing one's love
the Third Reich; Nazi Germany
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
supreme ruler; generalissimo; president (of Taiwan); führer; fuehrer
Okinawa (city, prefecture)
100,000; hundred thousand
death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out
Musashi (former province located in parts of present-day Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures)
special attack unit; suicide squad; kamikaze unit
divine wind (esp. a typhoon thought to have protected Japan from a Mongolian invasion in the 13th century); kamikaze
composition; formation; organization; organisation; compilation
changing the world; turning the tide; torpedo modified as a suicide weapon (used in WWII)
whole nation; whole land; whole country
magnification; enlargement; expansion; amplification
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
ordinary citizen; the general public
complete; completion; perfection; accomplishment